Suburbs

Wall Street Journal Headlines

The suburban areas surrounding the 50 largest metropolitan areas make up 79% of the population of those areas but accounted for 91% of population growth over the past 15 years, according to a new study.

Suburban areas across the U.S. are changing quickly as towns rethink traditional single-family zoning to accommodate younger people. But in metro areas such as Dallas and Nashville, Tenn., some suburbs are taking drastically different approaches to density.

A ruling by a state judge ordering Connecticut to overhaul public-school funding has sent chills through some suburban and rural districts, where leaders fear they will lose money from Hartford if the order is carried out.

U.S. Census data released Thursday support the thesis that shifts in where Americans move were merely temporary, according to analysis by Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation.